With an intricately woven wire tree adorned with a swing and a bench, Dr. Niousha Saghafi won the annual Department of Orthodontics wire sculpture contest for first-year residents. The contest, first...
When medical student Jory Wasserburger served a rotation in a Wyoming family physician’s office last year, the doctor wondered about the high number of child patients who had untreated tooth decay....
In each of the past two years, University of Washington social work professor Karina Walters has spent a little over a week trudging through swampland and battling heat and insects along nearly 70...
A young donor to the University of Washington got quite a bang for his seven bucks this week.
Anders Clark, a first-grader at Seattle’s Bryant Elementary School, earned $7 for turning in Halloween...
In 1936, while accepting his renomination for the presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
Don Raleigh arrived at his rendezvous at 7:55 a...
Dr. Mina Katchooi, who fashioned an elegant tableau, "The Water Lily," featuring a pond flower and hovering dragonfly, has won top honors in the School of Dentistry’s annual Department of...
A group of UW dentistry, medicine and nursing students converged on Mary's Place, a Seattle shelter, to care for homeless women and children. On Monday the students created an ad-hoc clinic,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration – NASA – has awarded UW space travel medicine researcher Peter Cavanagh a Distinguished Public Service Medal. He was honored for 30 years of service...
In a push to keep health professions on pace with changing demographics, the University of Washington will create a Health Professions Academy to cultivate and recruit undergraduate students from...
Dr. Sepideh Torkan, a student in the Department of Orthodontics at the School of Dentistry, has won the department’s annual wire sculpture contest with a creation titled "Dancers."
Second place went...